Eye massage apparatus and medicator combined.



PATENTED MAY 7, 1997.

1?. C. DORMENT. EYE MASSAGE APPARATUS AND MEDIGATOR COMBINED.

APPLIUATION FILED NOV. 17. 1906.

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' ing FRANK O. DORMENT, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

EYE MASSAGE APPARATUS AND IVIEDICATOR COMBINED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 7, 1907.

Application filed November 1'7, 1906. Serial No. 343,837.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK C. DORMENT, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Eye Mass age App aratus and Medic at or Combined,

of which t e following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in optical instruments and more especially to instruments for the treatment of the eyes by employing atmospheric pressure to exercise or massage the eyeballs and adjacent parts.

The object of the invention is to provide a very cheap, convenient and sanitary construction which may be easily taken apart for cleaning or repair and may be quickly and easily adjusted to the eyes and secured in its adjusted position.

A further object of the invention is to pro vi de the instrument with means for introduca medicament into the path of the air forced therethrough by the air bulb in such a manner that the air will be thoroughly sat-- urated therewith and thus when forced against the eyelids will deposit the medicine thereon in the most effective manner.

It is also an object of the invention to provide an instrument for the purpose described having certain other new and useful features and several advantages of the particular construction arrangement and combination of parts all as hereinafter more fully described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal axial section of a device embodying the invention; Fig. 2 an end elevation of the same; and Fig. 3 a perspective detail of the separated parts of the connection between the eye-cups and airbulb Like numerals refer to like parts in all the figures.

1, 1 are eye-cups formed of metal, hard rubber or any other suitable material and adapted to engage at their rim the face of the patient around his closed eyes and are each provided with a myopic concave 2 to fit the eyeballs and form molds to bring the crystalline lens and cornea of each eye into the proper convexity. An air duct 3 leads from the center of each concave to a screw-threaded opening into which the end of a suitably the axis thereof.

bent tube 4 is screwed, the opposite ends of said tubes being each formed with a circular head 5 having an axial opening to receive a tubular stem 6 and each offset to one side of the axis of the tube so that when in place, one upon the other, they form complementary parts of a circular head, which parts are held together and permitted to turn relatively to adjust the tubes and their eye cups toward or from each other, by a lock nut 7 on the screw-threaded end of the stem 6. The opposite end of said stem is provided with an outwardly extending concavo-convex flange 8 which is inserted through a comparatively small opening in a flexible rubber ball or air bulb 9 with the flange engaging the inner surface of the ball around the opening, and a hollow spacing member 10 formed of sheet metal or other suitable material is interposed between the outer surface of the ball around its opening and the adjacent side of the circular head on the air tubes so that when the lock nut 7 is turned up, the parts of the head are firmly clamped between the nut and spacing member and the air bulb is clamped between the opposite end of said member and the flange on the stem.

The circular head 5 on each air tube 4 is provided with an air duct 11 communicating with said tube and the axial opening in the head and openings 12 are provided in the stem 6 opposite said ducts to permit a free passage of the air from the bulb 9 through the tubular stem and said 0 ening and air ducts into the tubes. Suitab e washers 13 of paper or other suitable material may be placed between the parts of the head and between said head and nut and head and spacing member to make tight joints and prevent any escape of air. I

The lock nut 7 is formed with an axial bore 14 one end of which is screw-threaded to receive the screw-threaded end of the stem 6 and into the outer end of this bore to close the same, is fitted a plug 15 having a milled head by means of which it may be removed. Secured to this plug is a small rod or pin 16 preferably formed of wood or other absorbent material which when the plug is in place, extends inward through the tubular stem in By removing the plug and inserting the rod in a medicament, then replacing the plug, the medicine is suspended in the axis of the stem wherethe air in its passage to and from the bulb will soon absorb it and carry it up through the tubes to the patients eyes and eyelids.

By making the device in parts which are easily and quickly detached and separated, it may be made of sheet metal or other cheap material, as it is easily kept clean, and by loosening the lock nut, the eye-cups may be quickly adjusted to the eyes of the atient and when so adjusted are firmly held in the proper position for that patient by the rigid tubes to which they are attached, said tubes being prevented from turning by the tightening of said nut. between the cups and bulb also facilitates the manipulation of the device as the user may hold the cups in position against his eyes, by grasping the spacing member with one hand and compressing the bulb with the same hand, thus leaving the other hand free, and the cups are pressed and held firmly to place by the rigid connection, thus obviating the necessity for grasping each cup.

Having thus fully described the invention what I claim is 1. The combination with eye-cups and a compressible air bulb, of rigid air tubes connecting the cups and bulb and adapted to be rotatively adjusted to vary the relative position of the cups.

2. The combination with eye-cups and a compressible air bulb, of rigid air tubes to one end of which the cups are attached and which tubes are pivotally attached at their opposite end to the bulb to be moved relatively and means for holding the tubes in their adjusted position.

3. The combination with eye-cups and a compressible air bulb, of a tubular member connected to the air bulb, and rigid air tubes pivotally attached to said member and formed with air ducts communicating with the interior of said member.

4;. The combination with eye-cups and a compressible air bulb, of a tubular member connected to the air bulb, rigid air tubes to one end of which the cups are attached and the opposite ends of which are pivotally attached to said member to turn thereon to ad just the cups relatively, and means for holding said tubes in their adjusted position upon said member.

5. The combination with e e-cups and a compressible air bulb, of a tu ular member attached to and opening into said bulb, rigid air tubes to the outer ends of which the cu s are attached and detachably and rotative y mounted at their inner ends upon said tubular member and provided with air ducts communicating with the interior of said member, and means for securing said tubes upon said member and preventing their rotation thereon.

6. The combination with eye-cups and a The rigid tube connection.

compressible air bulb, of a tubular member to which the bulb is secured, rigid tubes to which the cups are secured, a head on each of the tubes to receive the tubular member and turn freely thereon and formed with an air duct connecting the tube with the interior of the said member, and means for securing said heads upon the member and preventing the same from turning thereon.

7. The combination with eye-cups and a compressible air bulb, a tubular stem provided with'openings in its side and attached to the bulb at one end in communication with the interior of said bulb, rigid air tubes to which the cups are attached, heads on the opposite ends of said tubes having axial openings through which the stem extends and provided with air ducts communicating with said tubes and the openings in the stem, and means on the stem for engaging and preventing the turning of the heads.

8. The combination with eye-cups and a compressible air bulb, of a tubular stem to one end of which the bulb is attached, air tubes to which the cups are attached, a head on each tube having an opening to receive the stem and adapted to rotate thereon and formed with an air duct communicating with the interior of the stem and tube, and a nut on the outer end of the stem to engage the outer head and clamp said heads to prevent them from turning.

9. The combination with eye-cups and a compressible air bulb, of a tubular stem prothe outer end of the stem operating to clamp the heads and the bulb between said nut and the flange on the stem.

10. The combination with eye-cups and means for forcing air to said cups, of means connecting said cups and said means and forming a passage for the air, and a removable member suspended in said passage for holding a medicament.

11. The combination with eye-cups and means for forcing air to said cups, of means connecting said means and cups and forming a tubular passage for the air, and a member in said passage formed of absorbent material to hold a medicament.

12. The combination with-eye-cups and a compressible air bulb, of means connecting said cups and bulb and formed with a tubular passage opening into the bulb at its inner end and ducts opening into said passage and communicating with said cups, a removable plug in the outer end of said passage and IIO means carried by the plug for holding a stem, and a rod on the plug extending in the medicament. axis of the stem. 10 13. The combination with eye-cups and a In testimony whereof I affix my signature compressible air bulb, of a tubular stem conin presence of two Witnesses.

nected to the bulb at one end and open at its FRANK O. DORMENT.

opposite end, air tubes to the outer ends of Witnesses:

which the cups are secured, attached to said OTTO F. BARTHEL,

stem, a plug to close the outer end of the ANNA M. Donn. 

